"The business of men is to be happy; but in this world, I think it is enough if we can avoid being miserable."

"Parents have a power over their children, to support and govern them for their good, till they are of capacity to shift for themselves."

"Where there is no law, there is no freedom."

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."

"The only fences against the world are a thorough knowledge of it, into which a man should be entered by degrees as he can bear it; and a perfect ignorance of it, which is a state of innocence."